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Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Which fashion theory suggests that fashion trends start among the upper class and then are gradually accepted by the masses?
A
Trickle-across
B
Trickle-down
C
Trickle-out
D
Trickle-up
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Trickle-down theory (Downward flow theory): The assumption that fashion trends start among the upper class or fashion leaders and move down to the masses or fashion followers.

Detailed explanation-2: -In the world of fashion, trickle-down describes a situation where particular trends are first accepted by people in the top social class. Then, over time, those fashion trends become gradually accepted by those in the lower classes.

Detailed explanation-3: -The trickle-up effect in the fashion field, also known as bubble-up pattern, is an innovative fashion theory, born in the late 1970s, that believes that new trends are to be found in the streets and that innovation flows from lower classes to upper ones.

Detailed explanation-4: -The trickle-up effect states that policies that directly benefit lower income individuals will boost the income of society as a whole, and thus those benefits will “trickle up” throughout the population.

Detailed explanation-5: -Trickle-down Theory In fact, the elite class were differentiated through their fashion styles, and these styles gradually moved downwards. Likewise, fashion trickled downward from the upper strata to the lower classes, imitated through cheaper versions of design and fabric by the latter.

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